tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72045346428010217322024-03-15T21:10:15.727-04:00Saint Louis CrusadeSaint Louis Crusade is a blog for friends and supporters of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP)and its America Needs Fatima campaign in the St. Louis area.John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.comBlogger1199125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-44462583944294296522020-07-01T10:42:00.001-04:002020-07-01T10:42:51.444-04:00Sign Here to Save Our Beloved Statue of St. LouisSign Here to Save Our Beloved Statue of St. LouisJohn Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-10165543768893361392019-10-15T16:26:00.000-04:002019-10-15T16:26:16.051-04:00Why the New Joker Film Is No Laughing Matter
By John Horvat II
The new film, Joker, is much more than a simple film. The intensely violent and bloody blockbuster is a statement about what has gone wrong with our society. It is yet another symptom of a culture that has lost its way.
Some films inspire people to do great things. Others contain beauty and moral meaning. Joker is made to horrify. It proposes an anti-heroJohn Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-39700561064452894272019-08-13T16:26:00.000-04:002019-08-13T16:26:53.855-04:00This Is Why Woodstock 50 Was Just Canceled
By John Horvat II
This Is Why Woodstock 50 Was Just Canceled
Of the rock festivals of the sixties, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was by far the most famous. Held on a 600-acre dairy farm near Bethel, N.Y. on August 15–17, 1969, the festival is the iconic representation of the drug-addled culture and sexual revolution that upended American life. This August marks the fiftiethJohn Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-31987526781697683802019-05-30T14:48:00.000-04:002019-05-30T14:48:32.313-04:00Is the Popular Video Game Fortnite Sinful?by John Horvat II
The video game, Fortnite Battle Royale, is disrupting many a household: Parents tell horror stories of young sons who play it non-stop and suddenly turn violent toward those who oppose their playing.
For those unfamiliar with Fortnite, it is an immensely popular fast-paced video game which was released in the summer of 2017. It has since gathered a John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-34832679320623079092019-04-23T16:52:00.003-04:002019-04-23T16:52:15.498-04:00Why the Restoration of Notre Dame Seems Doomed to Fail
By John Horvat II
Many plans are circulating for the restoration of Notre Dame after the tragic and highly symbolic fire that shocked the world. Technicians are getting ready to engage in this challenging project. Well over a billion dollars has been raised — almost effortlessly. French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to rebuild an even more beautiful church in five years.
John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-53206418653882874292019-03-21T14:18:00.000-04:002019-03-21T14:18:03.933-04:00The Only Divorce-Free City in the World
By Plinio Maria Solimeo
The family is one of the institutions most affected by the crisis in our decadent times. Religious and moral sentiments have practically disappeared as if torn to bits. The divorces rate is overwhelming — an estimated 50% of marriages fall apart. Added to this, there are illicit unions, which are common and seemingly without consequences.
That is why it does soJohn Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-14623847796340609182019-02-27T14:21:00.000-05:002019-02-27T14:21:05.352-05:00This Is the Danger of Not Taking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Seriously
By John Horvat II
The left’s new darling is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (“AOC”). The 29-year-old congresswoman from New York catapulted into the political scene in November as the face of a new “democratic” socialism. The media hang on to her every word and fawn over every gesture. Her “New Green Deal” is the talk of the nation. Conservatives take note of and ridicule her antics, John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-5839644659263001582019-01-29T17:41:00.003-05:002019-01-29T17:41:29.076-05:00Why Catholic Millennials Need These Four Urgent Life Skills
By John Horvat II
Many complain that young people are not getting the basic life skills so needed to survive in the world. Parents and schools no longer teach skills like cooking, laundry, budgeting, or car repair as in times past.
At the same time, our culture encourages young people to extend their adolescence well into their twenties. They postpone future responsibilities John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-71031480201893515072018-12-17T15:09:00.000-05:002018-12-17T15:09:38.776-05:00Martyr in St. Louis: This is a Glorious Way to Die
by: Norman Fulkerson
Monday, November 19, 2018, might
have seemed like a normal day for Jamie Schmidt. Little did she know when she
entered Catholic Supply, a religious
goods store in suburban St. Louis, Missouri,
that this ordinary day would be her last. Nor did her family ever dream her
life would come to a heroic end with her being compared to Saint Maria Goretti.<!--[if !John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-45121316392075929652018-11-26T15:55:00.000-05:002018-11-26T15:55:02.482-05:00The Catholic Church Against Every Error: The Unending Conflict
By Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
This article was written before World War II in the face of an impending crisis. Although the world situation has changed since then and even worsened, the same “unending conflict” between the Church and Her enemies continues.
Taken from the newspaper, Legionário, October 15, 1939
“The Unending Conflict” is the title of an essay by Hilaire Belloc, a John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-76764933138841309802018-10-04T16:25:00.001-04:002018-10-04T16:25:58.517-04:00Save Us From the Deniers of Hell - Return to OrderBy John Horvat IIAnyone who wonders why the Catholic Church is in its present crisis need only read Dr. Scott Bruce’s “Do We Still Need to Believe in Hell?” The Wall Street Journal article (9/15-16/2018) recently appeared in its popular weekend review section.It was a rather typical yet brutal appraisal of the notion of Hell. The author believes Hell is a medieval invention John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-24209054490420995492018-09-24T16:13:00.001-04:002018-09-24T16:13:31.495-04:00An Appeal to the Divine ShepherdessBy John Horvat IISeptember 25 is the feast of the Divine Shepherdess. This devotion dates back to 1703, when Capuchin Friar Isidoro of Seville, a scion of Spain’s most noble families, experienced a mystical illumination in which the Virgin Mary asked him to spread devotion to her as Shepherdess of Souls. He commissioned a painting, preached this devotion, and it is well-known today in John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-34981172869761791562018-09-21T12:03:00.001-04:002018-09-21T12:03:50.452-04:00How Science Gets God WrongBy John Horvat II
To the scientific community, religion is a mystery that should not exist. The greatest mystery is the God problem. There must be some kind of scientific explanation to account for why people believe in God.
Since the Enlightenment, secular scientists have held that God is an imaginary being, created by weak people who need psychological support to deal with the stressJohn Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-56898504587576124722018-09-10T14:37:00.001-04:002018-09-10T14:37:06.736-04:00On Those Things a President Cannot Solveby John Horvat IIThere are many issues that President Trump can solve. His first great accomplishment was solving the election. Almost all conservatives adopted a thank-God-it’s-not-Hillary approach to the Trump presidency. There was a general sigh of relief over a bullet dodged.As time passes, the administration now stands on its own merits beyond being not-Hillary. In this respect, President John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-81818412567726400602018-09-04T12:42:00.001-04:002018-09-05T09:45:31.972-04:00New Book: Lighting the Way to a Life That Makes Sense
By Edwin Benson
The new book Lighting the Way: Stories that Show How Our Culture Went Wrong and How We Can Restore Order is a collection of stories arranged to illustrate an idea.
The idea is that of the organic Christian society. That is an unfamiliar idea to many, although we live in and around many such organic communities or situations.
Free Book: Return to Order:John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-23141361016140836572018-08-09T11:15:00.001-04:002018-08-09T11:15:22.047-04:00Why I Use the Word Catholic to Describe the Ideal Economy By John Horvat IIThe adjective Catholic is rarely employed to describe the ideal economy we need. Many would see its use as mere window dressing to make the free market appear a bit more compassionate. Everyone knows that the business of creating wealth comes from industry and business. The accountant’s ledger is the only true measure of this wealth. Catholic can only be, at best, a timid John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-30920405024240598042018-07-12T12:11:00.001-04:002018-07-12T12:11:47.344-04:00Why Good Fences Make Good Neighbors By John Horvat II“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” wrote poet Robert Frost. In the opening line to his famous poem, “Mending Wall,” Frost explores one of the mysteries of fallen human nature. Everyone feels both a need and aversion for order. His questioning of the role of walls tries to explain this contradiction.Exercising the simple task of mending a stone wall on his John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-85469673518943733762018-07-03T14:33:00.001-04:002018-07-03T14:33:16.608-04:00Why Society Needs to Cultivate a True Elite ClassBy John Horvat IIThere was a time when the nation was ruled by a group of people that set the course for the country. Their children usually followed in their footsteps. This group of people tended to consolidate their wealth and pass it along to future generations. They formed what has been called a social elite—one that possessed complex connections within society, a network of civil John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-22748008060777638972018-06-06T11:49:00.001-04:002018-06-06T11:51:52.741-04:00New Book Lighting the Way; Gives Hope
YORK, Penn. (June 5, 2018) An exciting new book addressing the restoration of America’s moral compass has just been released. Lighting the Way: Stories that Show How Our Culture Went Wrong and How We Can Restore Order is co-authored by John Horvat II and Norman Fulkerson. They put together a collection of essays and stories that represent hope for America.
This book is written as a John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-61869676497045156302018-05-30T14:57:00.001-04:002018-05-30T14:57:15.432-04:00The Return of the Druids in Ireland By John Horvat IIThe Return of the Druids in IrelandThe abortion referendum in Ireland is over, and many are devastated by the tragic outcome. Some now conclude that Ireland has surrendered to the secular European agenda. It has lost its Catholic identity. The progressives are now giddy with joy proclaiming a new modern Ireland that has left behind the old.However, there is nothing new in John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-79904376110576267212018-05-17T15:04:00.001-04:002018-05-17T15:06:47.764-04:00With Cardinal Dolan’s Approval: Sacrileges, Immorality, and Madness
By Luiz Sérgio Solimeo
With Cardinal Dolan’s Approval: Sacrileges, Immorality, and Madness
On May 7, 2018, the fashion world’s Super Bowl was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
According to Wikipedia, “The Met Gala. . . is an annual fundraising gala. . . . It marks the grand opening of the Costume Institute’s annual fashion exhibit. Each year’s event John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-50844644127133607462018-04-27T11:30:00.001-04:002018-04-27T11:30:06.444-04:0012 Rules for Life: A Book I Wanted to Like -
By John Horvat II
Dr. Jordan Peterson delivering a lecture at the University of Toronto in 2017. Author: Jacob Adams
Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is a book I wanted to like. I wanted so much to favor someone who proposes rules in our times of unrestraint. I see so clearly the need for an antidote to chaos. The fact that his book is John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-51274236025133651502018-04-03T17:19:00.001-04:002018-04-03T17:19:24.223-04:00Why Are Young People Killing Young People?By John Horvat IIIn the marches, walkouts and debates over gun violence, young people claim to be victims. Some even say they are the only valid, even prophetic voice speaking out. However, one question goes unanswered: Why are young people killing other young people?There is so much talk about the responsibility of bad politicians, National Rifle Association members and corrupt officials. John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-83339500057745995422018-03-29T11:40:00.001-04:002018-03-29T11:41:23.872-04:00Dealing with a Walk-Away World
By John Horvat II
A colleague told me of an intriguing incident at a conference of accountants that were studying recent changes in tax regulations. One speaker gave a talk on recruiting new staff and how to deal with turnover. An attendee then asked a question remarking that from the context of her presentation, it seemed companies were facing recruiting cycles of two or three years,John Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7204534642801021732.post-851365691311191092018-03-20T18:49:00.001-04:002018-03-20T20:16:43.072-04:00Praying a Counter-Cultural Rosary on the Frontlines of the Culture WarBy John Horvat II
As I stood on the country highway praying a rosary for marriage, I could not help but think I was on the front line. Talking about traditional marriage is essential, but it can be done from the safety of the home. Writing about the subject is an exercise done in the isolation of an office. When you are out in front of hundreds of passing cars or pedestrian traffic, that isJohn Horvathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00120123713009435904noreply@blogger.com0